Nondestructive inspection using Rotating Field Eddy Current (RoFEC) Probes

Author

Xin, Junjun ; Lei, Naiguang ; Udpa, Lalita ; Udpa, Satish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

9-12 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The use of Rotating Field Eddy Current (RoFEC) Probe for inspection of metallic steam generator tubes in nuclear power plant offers higher operation speed and sensitivity relative to traditional rotating probe coil and array probes. This paper investigates the feasibility of the RoFEC probe which does not require rotating the coils mechanically. Results of finite element modeling and simulation results with Reduced Magnetic Vector Potential Formulation (RMVP) are presented for non-magnetic and ferromagnetic tube inspection.

Keywords

eddy current testing; inspection; nondestructive readout; ferromagnetic tube inspection; finite element modeling; metallic steam generator tubes; non-magnetic tube inspection; nondestructive inspection; nuclear power plant; reduced magnetic vector potential formulation; rotating field eddy current probes; Coils; Eddy currents; Finite element methods; Giant magnetoresistance; Inspection; Magnetic flux density; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Probes; Sensor arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), 2010 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7059-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEFC.2010.5481873

Filename

5481873